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Sooraj Pancholi’s judicial custody ends today

Aspiring actor Sooraj Pancholi’s judicial custody ends
today. The 22-year-old was arrested in
Jiah Khan’s suicide case after Jiah Khan’s mother Rabiya Khan lodged complaint
against Sooraj for abetting her daughter’s suicide. Sooraj was in police
custody since June 10th. His bail plea was rejected when police
received substantial information about him. They feared that if he was set free, he
might dissolve the prove. Hence his bail plea was rejected earlier.

On Wednesday, Sooraj Pancholi moved to Mumbai court for seeking bail. AdityaPancholi and Zarina Wahab's son Sooraj was arrested by Mumbai
police on June 11th. He was found guilty of abetting Jiah Khan
to take this extreme step. On June 21st,
his bail plea was rejected and the court sent him to jail till June 27th.

Sooraj was arrested when Rabiya Khan handed over to the police a six
page suicide note written by Jiah few days before she committed suicide. Though
the letter has not mention of Sooraj’s name, it was established that Jiah and
Sooraj were in a live-in relationship and Jiah also got pregnant during their
romantic relationship. Mr. Pancholi’s lawyer claimed that the letter does not
mention his name and moreover said that how Jiah can say Sooraj physicaly and
mentally abused her when they were moving around together.

"There is a suicide note, there is a statement of (Khan's) mother and
some circumstantial evidence of triggering," said Additional Police
Commissioner Vishwas Nangre-Patil to news agency AFP when justifying the
arrest.

Jiah’s postmortem report justified that no marks, apart from those on her
neck and throat, were found on her body, police said. No traces of alcohol or
drugs were found either.

Moreover, Sooraj Pancholi ‘s ex-girlfriend Jhanvi of five years came forward
and said that Sooraj is a very well behaved boy and all the claims against him
is unjustified and untrue.

Jiah had a very promising debut opposite Amitabh Bachchan in Ram Gopal
Varma's 'Nishabd' in 2000. She then starred in Aamir Khan starrer 'Ghajini' and
Sajid Khan's 'Housefull' in 2010. She committed suicide at her Juhu residence
on June 3rd. she hanged herself to the ceiling fan of her house when mother and
sisters were out.